Sunday, July 16, 2023
Wish You Were Here, from John T. McCutcheon
Here is card #6 in the McCutcheon "A Boy In ..." series, which Eddie Campbell tells us totalled 32 different cards. The copyright on our last entry, #30, was 1903, and this one is copyright 1905. Since they're all divided-back cards (though our user today hadn't got the message she could write on the back) so were published in 1907 or later, that tells us that the copyrights presumably refer to the original publication dates of each of the cartoons.
Labels: Wish You Were Here
Comments:
From what I gather, McCutcheon did this series for the Chicago Record-Herald starting in about 1902, and I've seen various specimens from 1903 on. So I think your belief as to original publication date is right.
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